Social Integration and Certain Corollaries: An Exploratory Study

Abstract

ent status levels than those from higher strata. Their aspirations were perhaps the result of conditioning on particular socioeconomic levels. Consequently, it would seem that any attempt to impose a monolithic definition of occupational success and aspiration upon all social strata would require the projection of the definition of one stratum upon all strata. Therefore, measurement of aspiration for comparative purposes would likely be most accurate if it took relativities into account.